Equal Pay and Terms - Material Factor Defence | Emplaw

Key Points

A defence to an equal pay claim is that the claimant is paid less because of a material factor not because of gender.
Material factors must be capable of objective justification.
Much of the case law that assist is pre-Equality Act 2010 but the defence is contained in the Equality Act 2010.

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